Jack, I'm not an American - although I lived in that fucked up country for 11 years. Please believe me, you are extremely misguided if you think that climate change isn't manmade and isn't dangerous. And if you think it isn't here.
Here is a link to all the questions (and answers) that my geology professor gave me some years ago. (We're still friends after all these years). It's called Skeptical Science, and it gives the exact facts all those climate change questions. Unlike you, I have actually studied the science.
https://skepticalscience.com//argument.php
Jack, have you ever read a science paper? I had to google Thomas Friedman - a journalist? What the hell has a journalist got to do with science?
The vast majority of climate scientists in the WORLD acknowledge that climate change is happening, that it will wipe out humanity and many other species within 80 years, and you're concerned about the words of a journalist?
Somewhere around 80% to 90%of the world's climate sciences (not sciences in other disciplines) say that climate change is real, and you tell me that none of the climate scientists you have spoken to can prove it? Might I ask you where you get access to climate scientists?
This is from NASA. Or are you telling me that NASA doesn't know what it's speaking about either?
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Also, to quote from Forbes, "In the strict sense, the 97% consensus is false, even when limited to climate scientists. The 2016 Cook review found the consensus to be “shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists.” One survey found it to be 84%."
If you think that Greta Thunberg is the best spokesperson for climate change, you cannot have read a single science journal or abstract ever. Nor have you studied these sciences. I have.
Al Gore? WTF? Which century are you living in Jack? That is historical. I knew about climate change in 1970 - not 1990. It is now 2021. The world has moved on, and there is a lot of hard science out there.
I read the science every single day of my life - the actual research. It sounds like you haven't.
The skeptical science site will give you a lot of the hard science, but if you do need help finding the actual science papers, I would be happy to provide them for you.
